Heart Health & Cholesterol Resources
Articles from Dr. Elizabeth Klodas and the Step One Foods team — covering diet & nutrition, heart health, statins, and the science of food as medicine.
Could Skipping Breakfast Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease?
Updated July 2026 You've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and skipping it has become more and more common, with roughly a quarter of young adults never eating it. It turns out the old adage...
Apr 27, 2019
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Apr 27, 2019
Could Skipping Breakfast Increase Your Risk of Heart Dise...
Updated July 2026 You've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and skipping it has become more and...
Apr 19, 2019
Slow medicine
I’m reading a book with the same title as this blog and it has really struck a chord with me. It’s written...
Apr 13, 2019
Clif Bar vs. KIND Bar: A (Snack) Bar Fight
Updated July 2026 A few years back, the snack-bar aisle turned into a boxing ring. Clif Bar published an open letter in...
Apr 5, 2019
What you’re NOT eating could kill you
Editor's note: Step One Foods was founded by Cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas to create a healthy, convenient and delicious daily food product that...
Mar 29, 2019
Do You Need Animal Protein to Get "Complete" Protein?
Updated July 2026 You've probably been told that if you don't eat meat, fish, eggs, or dairy, you're not getting protein. It's...
Mar 16, 2019
The evolution of Step One Foods
Step One Foods started in my kitchen. Hours and hours - and hours - of evaluating ingredients, blending, experimenting, tasting, and feedback...
Mar 9, 2019
Opportunities and minefields
This week I went to a standing-room-only talk at Natural Products Expo West. NPEW is the largest food show in North America...
Mar 2, 2019
They’re BACK!
For those of you who have been long term customers, you know what I’m talking about when I say “Peanut Butter Clusters.”...
Feb 23, 2019
Heart Attack Rates Are Rising in Young Women
Updated July 2026 A major study on heart attack hospitalizations revealed a startling trend: heart attack rates are increasing significantly among women...
Feb 9, 2019
A New Way to Look at LDL
Updated July 2026 If you've looked into what your LDL number should be and wondered why the targets keep getting lower, the...
Feb 2, 2019
One cardiologist's mission to reduce statin use for chole...
This story was originally published on CNN.com on Monday, January 14, 2019. High cholesterol? Here's a pill. High blood...
Jan 25, 2019
How do you deal with the black hole that is denial?
We received a lot of questions for our last live chat segment both online and via e-mail. And in a couple of weeks...
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